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Unlike humans, chimpanzees don't go through menopause

Researchers have found no evidence that chimpanzees in the wild undergo menopause in the way that women do, according to a new report published online on Dec. 13 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. That's despite the fact that reproduction tends to peter out at a similar age in both species.

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